- Howship-Romberg sign
Howship-Romberg sign is a sign used to identify
obturator hernia .cite journal |author=Haraguchi M, Matsuo S, Kanetaka K, "et al" |title=Obturator hernia in an ageing society |journal=Ann. Acad. Med. Singap. |volume=36 |issue=6 |pages=413–5 |year=2007 |month=June |pmid=17597966 |doi= |url=http://www.annals.edu.sg/pdf/36VolNo6Jun2007/V36N6p413.pdf] cite web |url=http://www.aafp.org/afp/990401ap/photo.html |title=Photo Quiz - April 1, 1999 - American Academy of Family Physicians |format= |work= |accessdate=2008-09-21]It is named for
John Howship andMoritz Heinrich Romberg . [WhoNamedIt|synd|1579] [J. Howship. Practical Remarks on the Discrimination and Appearance of Surgical Disease. London, Churchill, 1840.] [M. H. von Romberg. Pathologie und Therapie der Senisbilitäts- und Motilitätsneurosen. 1857. 3rd edition (unfinished) of Romberg’s Lehrbuch der Nervenkrankheiten des Menschen, page 89.]It should not be confused with
Romberg sign .References
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